Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is an enlarged prostate. BPH is not cancer and it doesn’t increase your risk of developing it. Still, BPH and prostate cancer have some symptoms in common. Although BPH is benign, the symptoms can be severe enough to strongly impact your quality of life. The first step when considering your options…
DetailsJuly 30, 2018. Dallas, TX. Smith and Van Meter Interventional Radiologists publish a new article that explains what happens when fibroid tumors, which are non-cancerous tumors, are left untreated. According to these well-regarded interventional oncology specialists in Dallas, about seventy percent of all women will develop fibroid tumors in their uterine at some time during…
DetailsAbout seventy percent of all women will develop fibroid uterine tumors at some time during their lifetime. They are noncancerous and they don’t cause symptoms in some women. In others, the location, number, and size of the tumors can cause a number of symptoms. Once fibroids grow larger, they produce symptoms of heavy menstrual bleeding,…
DetailsPam Harrison A minimally invasive, image-guided procedure that blocks small vessels in the knee with the help of biodegradable microspheres relieves symptoms of knee osteoarthritis (OA), a small study found. In the first US clinical trial of geniculate artery embolization (GAE), the procedure provided durable results out to 6 months in 6 of 13 patients…
DetailsThe minimally-invasive treatments provided by the leading interventional radiology doctors in Dallas have a strong place in the overall treatment of cancer. Even when surgery presents the best chances for a cure, IR treatments such as chemoembolization or tumor ablation may be employed to shrink tumors or stop their growth before surgery. Because systemic chemotherapy…
DetailsThe late Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert once quipped, “The Internet is wonderful…you can find information about anything there. And some of it is even true.” In no area of life is this insight truer than when searching for medical information, and therein lies a very real danger. From what we’ve seen as doctors…
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